Further to the announcement by DAF Trucks NV in November of its development of an electric rigid truck, the first DAF CF Electric 6x2 refuse collection truck has entered operations with Dutch public waste disposal firm, ROVA.

Nova Bus has announced it has won a contract to supply 165, 40ft hybrid buses (with BAE Systems’ hybrid propulsion system) with options for a further 126 hybrid buses and 209 diesel buses from New York’s MTA.

The claimed 'world’s most power dense permanent magnet electric motor' is under development in the UK.

Six months on from when Wabco Holdings Inc made a three-year agreement with global innovation platform, Plug and Play, Wabco’s Global Head of Technology Scouting, Dr Gandert Van Raemdonck, has provided an update on the company’s progress of this recent collaboration.

Announcing 14 electric Irizar ie buses, equipped with Hispacold’s ecological, silent and highly efficient EN air-conditioning systems will go into circulation on the streets of Génova from August 2020.

Braking and driveline specialist, Meritor Inc of Troy, as announced the distribution agreement between Meritor and a subsidiary of Wabco Holdings Inc has been terminated.

The BRA14m (USD2.8m) deal, which was first announced last November, was finalised in February this year.

FPT Industrial has acquired Potenza Technology, specialising in the design and development of electric and hybrid powertrain systems.

Bus and coach builder, Irizar Group, has signed a collaboration agreement with Scania Deutschland GmbH to offer its Irizar-Scania range of coaches to the German market.

Renault Trucks SAS announced it would, in March, start series production of its D and D Wide ZE medium-duty electric trucks at its Blainville-sur-Orne plant.

Wabco Holdings Inc has opened a new Global Test Centre in Wroclaw, as an extension to the existing Wabco Poland Research and Development Centre, which opened in October 2014.

Karsan Otomotiv Sanayii ve Tic. A.Ş. has appointed Quantron AG as its dealer for Germany to expand its sales and service network in Europe’s largest bus market with a market size of 7,000 units a year.